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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

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TYPE-COMPOSING BOARD.

Application filed December 13, 1926. Serial No. 154,397.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in type composing boards.

It is the principal object of my invention to provide a simple, compact and eflicient type composing board to receive type and direct them downwardly to a composing ejector in a manner least likely to obstruct or clog the tubes and channels through which they descend. 4

The invention contemplates a core board support for a plurality of twisted tubes by which the type, in their pasage therethrough, are turned 90 for prescntation in an edgewise manner to oblique side channels by which the type are conducted to vertical channels for delivery to the composing ejector.

It is another object of the invention 'to provide for the side channels, cover plates having transparent portions through which the type are visible. 4

It is still another object of the invention to provide hinged means for these cover plates 'whereby they maybe drawn from the side channels for cleansing purposes and'to permitthe easy removal of a broken or imperfect type which obstructs the passage of the other type through them.

Other important and incidental objects will be brought out in the following specification and particularly wt forth in the subjoined claims.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention. Figure 1 is 'a perspective view of a composing machine equipped with my improved type composing board. Figure 2 is a front elevational view of the type composing board, partly broken away to reveal the twistedtype'ttubes. Figure 3 is a top plan view of the same. Figure 4 is a cross sectional view taken through the type receiving channels at the bottom of the board on the line 4-4'of Figure 2. Figure 5 is a side view of the type composing board, partly broken away to reveal the ends of the twisted type tubes. Figure 6 is a view of the lower end of the type composing boar'd. Figure 7 is a sectionalview taken .through one edge of the type composing board on the line 7-7 of Figure 2. And Figure 8 is a perspective view of one of the twisted receiving tubes.

Referring to the accompanying for a detailed description of my invention, Figurelillustmtosatypeoom i machine having a. triangular core board 1 preferably constructed of brass. Secured to each side of this boardis a plurality of vertical type tubes 2 which receive type from an ejector 2. At their lower ends these tubes or chutes 2 are spirally turned or twisted a suflicient amount to change the position of the type passing through them 90, so that they will enter edgewise or the narrow way. inclined chan-. nels 3. 3 provided at each side. edge of the board 1 by means to be hereinafter described.

The core board 1 is secured at its upper end to a head member 4 along which the upper ends of the type tubes 2 project. Formed on'each lower side portion of the head member 4 is an ear 5 which is straddled by the upper forked end 6 of a channel cover plate 7. By a pin 8 passing through each ear 5 and the formed end of its respective cover plate 7, the latter is hingedly secured to said ear for a swinging movement with respect to the adjacent edge of the core board. Each cover plate 7 is grooved at its middle portion to fitthe edge of the core board 1, to form the two oblique side channels 3, 3 which receive the type edgewise from the tubes 2.

Secured to the sides of eachvchannel cover plate 7 by screws 9 are members 10, 10 constructed of non-breakable transparent material. These transparent members 10, 10 by exposing to view the type within the channels 3. 3, make itpossible to readily detect the clogging up of them by broken or imperfect And when this occurs, the cover plate 7 over that particular type may be swung away from the channel to permit the removal of that type from it. The channels are thus easily kept open for the free passage of type through them at all times.

The type tubes-2 are covered on each side by a triangular plate 11. The type'which enters and is turned by these tubes, descends edgewise into channels 3, 3 described for delivery by them in their edgewise positions to a single'vertical channel 12 formed between'blocks 13, 13 secured to each side of the lower projecting part of the core board 1' by screws 14. By these two channels 12,

of these slides so that they may be easily ,shiftedto engage their inner tapered ends with the pins 18 when it is desired to lock the channel cover plates 7 to the core board and to withdraw said slides from engagement with said pins when it is desired to swing the 2. In a device of the type described, the

combination with a type composing board, of a plurality of type receiving tubes vertically disposed thereon and twisted at their lower ends, oblique sidechannels ,communicating with the twisted lower ends of sald type receivin tubes, and a common dis charge means into which the type is delivered bythe side channels. In a device "of the type described, the

ficombination with a type composing board,

139if a'plurality of type receiving tubes vertically disposed thereon, oblique side channels communicating with the lower ends of the type receiving tubes, a common discharge means into which the type is delivered by the side channels, and hinged cover plates for the side channels,

4. Inadevice of the type described, a tri-.

angular core board, type receiving tubes ap plied to said board and terminating at their lower ends a short distance from the side edges of said board, cover members hingedly tubes, oblique type channels, and transparent plates secured to the cover members over I said channels.

5. In a device of the type described, the combination with a triangular type composing board having a bottom projecting part,

blocks secured to said projecting part of the core board to provide between them a vertical type receiving channel, and means form ing at the side edges of said board, channels which conduct the type to said vertical channel.

6. In a device of the type described, the combination with a triangular type composing board, 'a vertical type discharge channel at the lower end of said board, channels at the side edges of said board for conducting type'to the dischargevchannel, cover plates hingedly secured at their upper ends for the side channels, pins fixedly attached to said board at its lower end, and slides carried by the cover plates for engagement with the pins to lock said plates over the side channels. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of December, 1926.

FRANK H. POEPPELMEIER. 

